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On Saturday, April 8th and Sunday, April 9th, we held our very first brush lettering workshop at C Studios. Both days were filled with lots of lettering fun and a great opportunity to grow more brush lettering love!

Thank-you to everyone that participated in our workshops. It was wonderful to meet everyone and we encourage you to keep practicing! Happy lettering!

Want to learn brush lettering? Unable to attend a Ligatures lettering workshop? We've got just the thing! This 75-page printable PDF is the best resource to learn the fundamentals of brush lettering. The document includes:

We've had a wonderful time in Regina with GDC Sask South! The brush lettering workshop was an amazing success and everyone is on their way to becoming lettering pros! A big thank-you to Corey, Rhea, and Laila for helping making this workshop come together flawlessly. It was an absolute pleasure meeting everyone and looking forward to seeing your lettering progression! Keep on lettering!

Join us on Saturday, July 16 to learn the basics of Brush lettering. Our workshop will cover everything you need to know to get started with brush lettering. We help students learn the fundamentals of the English alphabet, working through basic strokes, and advancing to uppercase and lower case letterforms, as well as work construction.

Students receive a selection of our favourite brush lettering instruments, along with tips and tricks on how to get the most out of them. Students are encouraged to experiment and ask plenty of questions so they can get the most out of the equipment and our experience.

Back by popular demand is our marquee letter workshop! Spend Sunday afternoon with we teach you how to make marquee letters! Each participant will be able to create two cardboard letters or characters of their choice. Accentuate your space with these fun and easy-to-make letters. Theses letters are perfect for weddings and parties too!

We include supplies and will walk you through the process with some tips and tricks. Just bring along some letters from your favourite fonts and get ready to bring them to life (don't worry, we're type geeks so we'll have plenty to pick from too). Sign up for our Marquee Lettering Workshop today.

After the success of last year's Type Attack lettering duel, we decided bring it back again this year. We had a tremendous turnout, with a record 20 competitors and over 50 spectators. The rumble was held at Shopify.
In case you missed it, Type Attack is a tournment-style lettering contest, where artists are paired against each to drawn one glyph (letter or number) in successively shorter rounds. Other than that, there are no other rules: whoever creates the most interesting character (determined by the crowd vote) advances. Winner takes all!

We were happy to have Beau's Brewery samples their ales all night long.

We were also blessed with an outpouring of support from the community in the form of sponsorship and prizes. Above Ground was generous enough to donate all of these supplies for participants to use throughout the night:

And these were the amazing prize packs for the our contestants, including door prizes for everyone who participated:

A huge thank you to the following sponsors for their overwhelming support this year. Please show your love for these local suppliers and stop by their shops.

Ligatures and the Toronto Design Directory are proud to present the first annual 'Pixel & Bristle', the premier design & typography market in Toronto. The event will be held on Saturday, June 25 from 10-6 at the Drake Underground (1150 Queen Street West). This new market will bring together the work of Toronto's most exceptional designers, illustrators, typographers and makers at one of Toronto's most exciting cultural hubs.

'Pixel & Bristle' will showcase a diverse range of professional goods and products, including:

On the weekend of March 12, 2016, Ligatures gathered at Shopify in Toronto to share the basics of brush lettering to two groups of eager students. We were super excited to announce our newest instructor Veronica Wong, who joined Christopher and Kyle in teaching our weekend workshops.

Our lettering workshops cover everything you need to get started with brush lettering. Using our Ligatures lettering workbook, we helped students learn the most crucial brush form to practice in lettering: strokes! Once everyone was comfortable writing "rows of picket fences", we dove into the uppercase brush lettering alphabet.

Students receive a selection of our favourite brush lettering instruments, along with tips and tricks on how to get the most of them. Students are encouraged to experiment as they work through the class, but favourites were quickly found.

After everyone recharged over a lunch break, we offered a primer on lower case alphabets and script lettering. Then, we put their new skill to the test. Students were tasked with crafting word marks for brands and match lettering styles. We are always impressed with the progress folks make from the morning to the end of the day.

Thank you to Margot for the amazing photos, and Leslie for her support and social media savvy.

If you're interested in learning Brush Lettering in Toronto or anywhere else, please contact us with specifics or sign up for one of our lettering workshops today.

On Thursday, February 11, we gathered at Shopify to create Valentines. Folks were able to pre-purchase one of three types of supply kits – Letraset, Brush Pen or Lino printing – or bring their own tools. Over the course of 2 hours, the creativity flowed in shades of pink & red, and amazing cards were created. Check out all the photos below!